Overview
- Thousands of fans filled Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes for the Knicks’ ticker-tape parade and procession from Battery Park to City Hall, with viewing pens full hours before the 10 a.m. start.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented symbolic keys to the city to owner James Dolan, coach Mike Brown, Finals MVP Jalen Brunson and the roster during the City Hall ceremony.
- Alicia Keys closed the event with a performance of "Empire State of Mind," a song whose local streams surged after the title run and which became the celebration’s anthem.
- Officials deployed roughly 10,000 NYPD officers, plus K9s and drone surveillance, in what the city described as its largest planned security operation for a parade after earlier playoff-era crowd incidents prompted extra precautions.
- Organizers and officials face follow-up scrutiny over earlier postgame disorder and a visible City Hall banner error that listed Dillon Jones with Patrick Ewing’s retired No. 33, and investigations into celebration-related incidents remain under review.